KARACHI: Consequent upon the decision of the Supreme Court pertaining to the revival of Karachi Circular Railways project, a team of Pakistan Railways visited and monitored the progress of work on the KCR revival project under the directives of the Chairman of Railways, Habib-ur-Rehman Gillani.
The team comprised Additional General Manager (Infrastructure) Nisar Memon, Divisional Superintendent Karachi Division Arshad Salam Khattak, Project Director KCR Ameer Mohammad Daudpota and Deputy DS Farid Ahmad.
The revival work resumed in the last few days after a three-month pause owing to precautionary measures taken against Covid-19. The team visited different stations of the project.
PR officials said the AGM (Infrastructure), a visiting officer from PR Headquarters in Lahore who led the visiting team, monitored the progress on the work and directed for completion of all the assigned tasks during the stipulated time.
"The revival work on the KCR project may be expedited and Railways Headquarters is dedicated to provide monetary, logistical or any other support as required by the site staff and officers for timely conclusion of this historic project," said Nisar Memon during his conversation with the officers and employees present at working areas.
They said though the budgetary provisions for the KCR project had been earmarked during the FY2020-21 yet the Pakistan Railways had started the work during the ongoing fiscal year 2019-20 and tender for the project had already been floated. In order to streamline the KCR revival work, the government has also appointed Project Director KCR project, a BS-20 officer, from the Pakistan Railways.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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